Catalog record · 目録番号 46428
Abe no Nakamaro
Catalog note / 解説
This print was conserved with the support of the Robert F. Lange Foundation. When I gaze far out across the plain of heaven I see the same moon that came up over the hill of Mikasa at Kasuga (translated by Helen McCullough) Abe no Nakamaro (690-770) left Japan at the age of sixteen to study in China. There, he served as a court official under Emperor Xuanzong (r. 712-756) of the Tang dynasty, and became acquainted with several Chinese poets, including the renowned Li Bai (701-762). This poem was composed by Nakamaro in 752, when he decided to finally return to Japan after several decades of working in China. Unfortunately, his boat was caught in a storm and shipwrecked in Vietnam. Nakamaro…
Image record / 画像情報
Honolulu · c. 1840 · honolulu
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